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National H.I.R.E. Network
(December 2016)This report assesses some of the most common and pernicious obstacles to housing that confront Americans with criminal records and their families. It also examines innovative federal, state, and municipal initiatives that are helping people to overcome those obstacles. -
Peter Leasure & Tia Stevens Andersen, 35 Yale Law and Policy Review Inter Alia 11
(November 2016)According to the article's authors, obtaining employment is difficult for ex-offenders due to the stigma of having a criminal record. In recognition of this difficulty, some state legislatures have created certificates of relief (also known as certificates of recovery), which lift occupational licensing restrictions, limit employer liability for negligent hiring ... -
The Sentencing Project
(October 2016)According to the authors, in this election year, the question of voting restrictions is once again receiving great public attention. This report is intended to update and expand our previous work on the scope and distribution of felony disenfranchisement in the United States (see Uggen, Shannon, and Manza 2012; Uggen ... -
The Hamilton Project
(October 2016)According to this policy memo's author, over the past 30 years, both the incarcerated population and the limitations placed on those with criminal records have dramatically expanded. The consequences of a criminal conviction can last long beyond any imposed sentence, but current efforts to reduce the punitiveness of the criminal ... -
Eisha Jain, 104 Georgetown Law Journal
(June 2016)According to the article's author, criminal law scholars have long agreed that prosecutors wield vast and largely unreviewable discretion in the criminal justice system. This article argues that this discretion now extends beyond criminal penalties and broadly reaches civil public policy decisions, such as deportation and licensing. The author contends that, ... -
National Employment Law Project
(June 2016)In addition to the National Employment Law Project's recommendation that on-demand companies fully embrace the civil rights and consumer protection laws that protect jobseekers with arrest and conviction records, this report urges policymakers to do the following: Issue Guidance Regulating On-Demand Employers: Enforcement agencies, like the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ... -
Center for Economic and Policy Research
(June 2016)The report discusses that, despite modest declines in recent years, the large and decades-long blossoming of the prison population ensure that it will take many years before the United States sees a corresponding decrease in the number of former prisoners. Using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), this ... -
J.J. Prescott, 48 Connecticut Law Review 4
(May 2016)According to the article's author, the purported purpose of sex offender post-release regulations (e.g., community notification and residency restrictions) is the reduction of sex offender recidivism. On their face, the author continues, these laws seem well-designed and likely to be effective. As per the author, a simple economic framework of offender ...